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Anonymous ID: 1824e2 June 23, 2020, 10:26 a.m. No.9719179   🗄️.is 🔗kun

ONE TOUGH HOMBRE

 

I knew it when Trump said it .. Obama has called someone an "hombre" saved on Way Back

 

Wonder if someone is switching sides D to R

 

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2009/04/30/President-welcomes-one-tough-hombre-to-his-party/stories/200904300378

 

President welcomes 'one tough hombre' to his party

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette logo

 

TIMOTHY MCNULTY

 

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

APR 30, 2009 3:00 AM

 

A "thrilled" President Barack Obama welcomed Sen. Arlen Specter into the White House and the Democratic Party yesterday, calling him "one tough hombre" who will counsel his administration on health care reform and its other priorities.

 

Mr. Obama was referring to the 79-year-old's two bouts with cancer, but could have been talking about his Ginsu knife-sharp political survival skills. Mr. Specter shocked Pennsylvania and the Capitol Tuesday when he announced he was becoming a Democrat, giving him better odds of winning a sixth term and drawing Mr. Obama's party within one vote of the 60 needed for Senate control.

 

Speaking alongside Mr. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the White House Diplomatic Room, the ex-Republican put his sleight of hand on full display.

 

"I have not represented the Republican Party; I have represented the people of Pennsylvania. And I will continue to do just that. As I said yesterday, I will not be an automatic 60th vote," Mr. Specter said.

 

"I do think, Mr. President, that I can be of assistance. You have projected an administration that I feel very comfortable with."

 

Mr. Specter's announcement reverberated through the other early Republican and Democratic campaigns for his Senate seat. Leading Republican Pat Toomey, who lost the primary by only two points to Mr. Specter in 2004, signaled yesterday that he will be using the incumbent's survival tactics against him in a possible general election campaign.

 

Flipping sides is now such a part of the Specter story between parties, for and against union-supported "card-check" legislation that "a central question will be whether Mr. Specter can be trusted on anything," Mr. Toomey wrote in the Washington Times.

 

First Published April 30, 2009, 3:00am